Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

October 27 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

1. 1999Armenian parliament shooting
2. 1999Nairi Hunanyan
3. 2004Boston Red Sox
4. 2011Michael D. Higgins
5. 2014Operation Herrick
6. 2017Catalonia
7. 2018Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
8. 2018Leicester City F.C.
9. 2019Islamic State
10. 2019The Mocking of Christ (Cimabue)
11. 2019Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Also in 2019

• March 14Cyclone IdaiCyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.
• September 14Abqaiq–Khurais attackDrone attacks on major processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais forced Saudi Arabia to cut more than half of its oil production.
• September 14YemenYemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
• November 17COVID-19The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
• October 22Same-sex marriage in Northern IrelandSame-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being…
• August 10Typhoon LekimaHaving already caused severe flooding in the Philippines, Typhoon Lekima made landfall in Zhejiang, China, killing 45 people in the provi…
• August 10Jeffrey EpsteinJeffrey Epstein, an American financier and convicted sex offender, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Ne…
• August 102019 Bærum murder and mosque attackPhilip Manshaus shoots his stepsister and attacks a mosque in the Bærum mosque shooting.

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